MSN problem

[MacMosher]

Hey,

I have been using MSN for quite a while now and a problem has only shown up recently. Right now if I type a sentence and highlight it and delete it, the next sentence I right can only be the length of the one I highlighted... if I continue to type it will just keep changing the last character in the sentence.

Any thoughts? I can live with it, but its rather annoying.

Also, I would rather not change to Mercury or Adium... I have had them both and like the normal MSN better.

 

[iMpathetic]

Not sure, but do you have overwrite or something on, thus limiting the length of the new text to how long the old was?

 

[MacMosher]

I don't know what overwrite is... so maybe?

 

[byakuya]

have you tried reinstalling it?
uninstall everything (using appzapper for ex.) and reinstall...maybe that helps?

 

[MacMosher]

Thanks for the idea but still no luck... its really weird

 

[santangelo]

use Adium instead of msn for mac as its useless.

Once u get use to Adium there is no going back

 

[byakuya]

Thanks for the idea but still no luck... its really weird

that sure is weird...
sorry I can't be of more help...maybe someone else knows something.

 

[iMpathetic]

Overwrite is when you can't make the overall length of a block of text larger except for adding onto the end.

 

[MacMosher]

Overwrite is when you can't make the overall length of a block of text larger except for adding onto the end.

Ok, how do I turn it off?

 

[JazzOSX]

Workaround that seems to work as a fix

No idea what the "feature" is, but I had the problem myself just then. I decided to try a workaround, which was typing in another program (just textedit) and pasting in. The workaround fixed it!